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Powerapps is most certainly not a InfoPath Replacement. To believe such is complete folly. When a product doesn't do 50% of what the old one did, it cannot be considered a replacement. Even the lies built into the product that say a feature exists but really doesn't (see below) will cost you several of hours of engineering and development time, only to find out through lots of googling that the feature really doesn't work. Save yourself the time and effort use a product that works. There are lots of other system out there, use one other than this. Microsoft may be King but with this level of incompentence, its easy to see how they could lose it all.
I can't disagree with you more on this. I've edited literally dozens of InfoPath forms other people created. Some of them were quite complex. If you spent months figuring out what is going on in an InfoPath form, then I would guess it must have had C# in it.
5 years after your reply and Power Apps is still not a viable replacement for InfoPath. Instead, we've wasted valuable time attempting to create replacement forms all while still losing valuable functions that InfoPath had, but Power Apps does not - or has but you have to jump through hoops or add code to force it to happen.
Furthermore, I still believe Microsoft has failed and won't admit it.
I've heard the "mobility" excuse so many times it make my eyes role. 3 years in and only 1% of our workforce fills out any "form" on their phones.
The Mobility feature and integration is still a great feature.
I think you are missing the crux of the problems with InfoPath. If you are just on the creating end its all good.
What happens when you are on the editing end of an infopath that someone else created.
This is where PowerApps steps in with Flow and Integration across the board.
It bring orders and structure. I dont need to spend months working out what is going on in the infopath form.
I tried it. It doesn't work. I'm shocked.
Hey everyone, the attachment upload for SharePoint lists is officially out. For more details on the upload feature, see this blog post:
https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/add-attachments-to-sharepoint-lists/
The attachment upload functionality that supports SharePoint lists will be released next week. Out of the box support for document libraries will require more time, we don't have a specific date, rough estimate is 6 weeks.
FilipK based upon your post 2 weeks ago:
" However, we are in the final stages of testing the funtionality now, so attachment upload for SharePoint Lists will be released in March."
Can you provide a status report on when the Attachment funcition (particularly the ability to store attachments in Sharepoint Libraries) is anticipated to be released. This is a feature which seems to have had numerous anticipated release dates. The most current was that it would be released by the end of February. Many of the developers are waiting on this feature and we have Apps that are ready to be promoted and launched but need the Attachment capability.
Thanks, Marc...
PowerApps is a better replacement for some kinds of InfoPath use cases than for others. Here's a blog post outlining the main areas where PowerApps is NOT a suitable alternative to InfoPath:
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You may be able to find the solution you are looking for with the Formotus service. Formotus (www.formotus.com) enables you to deploy your current InfoPath forms to iOS, Android and Windows 10. If you want to migrate away from InfoPath, the Formotus service also includes a form creator that is essentially at parity with InfoPath. Formotus apps work robustly offline, and they support more custom controls than InfoPath (picture capture; GPS capture, etc.); and more data connectors than InfoPath (SharePoint, Google Docs, webservices, PDF, email, etc.)
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